United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

NEWELL v. HANKS

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 6(a) applies to the computation of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act's grace period, and so any...

FELTNER v. TITLE SEARCH CO.

Civil Procedure, Sanctions
Where a federal court injunction expressly prohibited relitigation in state court of certain issues previously decided in federal court, and the...

L.S.F. TRANP., INC. v. NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD.

Labor & Employment Law
Evidence, including a sudden concern with an employee's medical status and sudden reassignment of an employee from short-haul runs to long-haul runs,...

DALE. M. v. BD. OF EDUC. OF BRADLEY-BOURBONNAIS HIGH SCH. DIST. NO. 307

Attorney's Fees, Education Law
Although a statutorily authorized order of attorneys' fees awards the fees to the party, not to the party's lawyer, the district court has inherent...

MANKARIOUS v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure
Where the only change that new case law on wire fraud precipitated in the Seventh Circuit following the defendants' convictions was to require that a...

US v. TOKASH

Criminal Law & Procedure
Vague and conclusory allegations by defendants about tense prison situation and their generalized fears regarding future threats, proffered in...

SCHROEDER v. HAMILTON SCH. DIST.

Civil Rights, Education Law
Title VII does not provide for a private right of action based on sexual orientation discrimination, and the court declined to import Title VII...

DONALD v. US DEP'T OF AGRIC.

Agriculture, Contracts
In a Farm Service Agency (FSA)loan agreement, where the plain language of recapture provision provides for recapture at the expiration date of the...

DELGADO v. JONES

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Where plaintiff alleges sufficient facts to establish that the writing of a memo, alleging criminal activity within local government, is...

US v. INGLESE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Where defendant gun sellers were deliberately ignorant to the fact that purchasers lacked FOID cards, were buying guns for others, and would use the...